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The Continuing Studies Centre for Sustainability (CFS) is an educational organization at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The Centre's aim is to bring academic and industry expertise to the wider community by providing sustainability education and training programs for individuals, organizations and communities.
These asynchronous programs were developed at Green Mountain College as the first online sustainability programs of their kind--the MBA in 2006, the MS in Sustainable Food Systems in 2011, and the MS in Resilient and Sustainable Communities in 2013--and were absorbed by Prescott College after Green Mountain College closed in 2019.
The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) is located at the University of British Columbia's (UBC) Point Grey Campus in Vancouver. The building is dedicated to research collaboration and outreach on urban sustainability. It was officially opened in November 2011.
The university's School of Environment, Enterprise and Development placed first in Canada in the Corporate Knights 2011 ranking for undergraduate business programs incorporating sustainability. [89] The university campus received a C+ grade from the Sustainable Endowments Institute on its College Sustainability Report Card for 2011. [90]
The faculty's administrative home is the H.R. MacMillan Building, with other programs housed across the UBC Point Grey campus, and the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. The faculty's academic and research programs focus on the relationships between land, food, and natural resource use, both at a local level, and within a global context.
The following is a list of private universities that are authorized to issue degrees by a provincial authority. The following list does not include satellite campuses (Northeastern University - Toronto) and (Niagara University) and branches in Canada for universities based in the United States. All of them are English language institutions.
The University of Niagara Falls Canada (UNF) is a private, for-profit university in downtown Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. The university was established in 2024 after its announcement in October 2022 by Global University Systems Canada. [ 1 ]
Private universities in Canada are independent postsecondary institutions that have been granted the authority to confer academic degrees from a provincial authority. The oldest private universities in Canada operated as seminaries or as religiously-affiliated institutions, although several secular for-profit and not-for-profit private universities were established in Canada during the late ...